-zlib 1.1.2 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code
-is thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library
-is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files
-ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate
-format) and rfc1952.txt (gzip format). These documents are also available in
-other formats from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html
+ZLIB DATA COMPRESSION LIBRARY
+
+zlib 1.2.3 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code is
+thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs
+(Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files
+http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate format)
+and rfc1952.txt (gzip format). These documents are also available in other
+formats from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html
All functions of the compression library are documented in the file zlib.h
-(volunteer to write man pages welcome, contact jloup@gzip.org). A usage
-example of the library is given in the file example.c which also tests that
-the library is working correctly. Another example is given in the file
-minigzip.c. The compression library itself is composed of all source files
-except example.c and minigzip.c.
-
-To compile all files and run the test program, follow the instructions
-given at the top of Makefile. In short "make test; make install"
-should work for most machines. For MSDOS, use one of the special
-makefiles such as Makefile.msc; for VMS, use Make_vms.com or descrip.mms.
-
-Questions about zlib should be sent to <zlib@quest.jpl.nasa.gov> or,
-if this fails, to the addresses given below in the Copyright section.
-The zlib home page is http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
-The official zlib ftp site is ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
-Mark Nelson <markn@tiny.com> wrote an article about zlib for the Jan. 1997
+(volunteer to write man pages welcome, contact zlib@gzip.org). A usage example
+of the library is given in the file example.c which also tests that the library
+is working correctly. Another example is given in the file minigzip.c. The
+compression library itself is composed of all source files except example.c and
+minigzip.c.
+
+To compile all files and run the test program, follow the instructions given at
+the top of Makefile. In short "make test; make install" should work for most
+machines. For Unix: "./configure; make test; make install". For MSDOS, use one
+of the special makefiles such as Makefile.msc. For VMS, use make_vms.com.
+
+Questions about zlib should be sent to <zlib@gzip.org>, or to Gilles Vollant
+<info@winimage.com> for the Windows DLL version. The zlib home page is
+http://www.zlib.org or http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ Before reporting a problem,
+please check this site to verify that you have the latest version of zlib;
+otherwise get the latest version and check whether the problem still exists or
+not.
+
+PLEASE read the zlib FAQ http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_faq.html before asking
+for help.
+
+Mark Nelson <markn@ieee.org> wrote an article about zlib for the Jan. 1997
issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in
-http://web2.airmail.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm
-
-The changes made in version 1.1.2 are documented in the file ChangeLog.
-The main changes since 1.1.1 are:
-
-- added contrib/minzip, mini zip and unzip based on zlib (Gilles Vollant)
- See http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html
-- preinitialize the inflate tables for fixed codes, to make the code
- completely thread safe (Mark)
-- some simplifications and slight speed-up to the inflate code (Mark)
-- fix gzeof on non-compressed files (Allan Schrum)
-- add -std1 option in configure for OSF1 to fix gzprintf (Martin Mokrejs)
-- use default value of 4K for Z_BUFSIZE for 16-bit MSDOS (Tim Wegner + Glenn)
-- added os2/Makefile.def and os2/zlib.def (Andrew Zabolotny)
-- add shared lib support for UNIX_SV4.2MP (MATSUURA Takanori)
-- do not wrap extern "C" around system includes (Tom Lane)
-- added amiga/Makefile.pup for Amiga powerUP SAS/C PPC (Andreas Kleinert)
-- allow "make install prefix=..." even after configure (Glenn Randers-Pehrson)
-- allow "configure --prefix $HOME" (Tim Mooney)
+http://dogma.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm
+The changes made in version 1.2.3 are documented in the file ChangeLog.
Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib".
-A Java implementation of zlib is available in the Java Development Kit 1.1
-http://www.javasoft.com/products/JDK/1.1/docs/api/Package-java.util.zip.html
-See the zlib home page http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ for details.
+A Java implementation of zlib is available in the Java Development Kit
+http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/zip/package-summary.html
+See the zlib home page http://www.zlib.org for details.
-A Perl interface to zlib written by Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
-is in the CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites, such as:
-ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/Compress/Compress-Zlib*
+A Perl interface to zlib written by Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org> is in the
+CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites
+http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Compress/
-A Python interface to zlib written by A.M. Kuchling <amk@magnet.com>
-is available from the Python Software Association sites, such as:
-ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/contrib/Encoding/zlib*.tar.gz
+A Python interface to zlib written by A.M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> is
+available in Python 1.5 and later versions, see
+http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-zlib.html
-A zlib binding for TCL written by Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>
-is availlable at http://www.westend.com/~kupries/doc/trf/man/man.html
+A zlib binding for TCL written by Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com> is
+availlable at http://www.oche.de/~akupries/soft/trf/trf_zip.html
-An experimental package to read and write files in .zip format,
-written on top of zlib by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>, is
-available at http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html
-and also in the contrib/minizip directory of zlib.
+An experimental package to read and write files in .zip format, written on top
+of zlib by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>, is available in the
+contrib/minizip directory of zlib.
Notes for some targets:
-- To build a Windows DLL version, include in a DLL project zlib.def, zlib.rc
- and all .c files except example.c and minigzip.c; compile with -DZLIB_DLL
- The zlib DLL support was initially done by Alessandro Iacopetti and is
- now maintained by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>. Check the zlib DLL
- home page at http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll
-
- From Visual Basic, you can call the DLL functions which do not take
- a structure as argument: compress, uncompress and all gz* functions.
- See contrib/visual-basic.txt for more information.
- I don't know how to handle structures in Visual Basic, sorry.
+- For Windows DLL versions, please see win32/DLL_FAQ.txt
-- For 64-bit Irix, deflate.c must be compiled without any optimization.
- With -O, one libpng test fails. The test works in 32 bit mode (with
- the -n32 compiler flag). The compiler bug has been reported to SGI.
+- For 64-bit Irix, deflate.c must be compiled without any optimization. With
+ -O, one libpng test fails. The test works in 32 bit mode (with the -n32
+ compiler flag). The compiler bug has been reported to SGI.
-- zlib doesn't work with gcc 2.6.3 on a DEC 3000/300LX under OSF/1 2.1
- it works when compiled with cc.
+- zlib doesn't work with gcc 2.6.3 on a DEC 3000/300LX under OSF/1 2.1 it works
+ when compiled with cc.
-- on Digital Unix 4.0D (formely OSF/1) on AlphaServer, the cc option -std1
- is necessary to get gzprintf working correctly. This is done by configure.
+- On Digital Unix 4.0D (formely OSF/1) on AlphaServer, the cc option -std1 is
+ necessary to get gzprintf working correctly. This is done by configure.
-- zlib doesn't work on HP-UX 9.05 with some versions of /bin/cc. It works
- with other compilers. Use "make test" to check your compiler.
-
-- For shared memory multiprocessors, the decompression code assumes that
- writes to pointers are atomic. Also the functions zalloc and zfree passed
- to deflateInit must be multi-threaded in this case.
+- zlib doesn't work on HP-UX 9.05 with some versions of /bin/cc. It works with
+ other compilers. Use "make test" to check your compiler.
- gzdopen is not supported on RISCOS, BEOS and by some Mac compilers.
-- For Turbo C the small model is supported only with reduced performance to
- avoid any far allocation; it was tested with -DMAX_WBITS=11 -DMAX_MEM_LEVEL=3
+- For PalmOs, see http://palmzlib.sourceforge.net/
+
+- When building a shared, i.e. dynamic library on Mac OS X, the library must be
+ installed before testing (do "make install" before "make test"), since the
+ library location is specified in the library.
Acknowledgments:
Copyright notice:
- (C) 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
+ (C) 1995-2004 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
include third-party code.
If you redistribute modified sources, we would appreciate that you include
-in the file ChangeLog history information documenting your changes.
+in the file ChangeLog history information documenting your changes. Please
+read the FAQ for more information on the distribution of modified source
+versions.
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